Homemade blended formula handbook

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It is for parents and professionals who together are making the choice to try homemade blended formula for tube feeding.

Topics include: Parent, physician and dietitian perspectives - Why homemade blended formulas and where to start? Specifics on how to create homemade blended formula - Food guidelines, help with hydration and constipation - Making tube feedings into mealtimes - Equipment choices - Mealtime communication, socialization environments, stress Get A Copy.

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In addition to making sure that your child receives the nutrients he or she needs, an important consideration while developing your recipes is to build in a variety of foods. With the. It is important to work with your dietitian to come up with a recipe or recipes that will work well for your child and meet his or her needs. Add all ingredients to blender, blend well. Add water to meet the volume you want. Calories vary based on grains, vegetables, and fruit selected. The most important tool for making a blended diet is, unsurprisingly, a blender.

A high-speed blender such as a VitaMix or BlendTec , although expensive, makes blending easier. VitaMix and BlendTec both have medical needs discounts available. However, a high-speed blender is not necessary — many have used immersion blenders and regular blenders successfully. With regular blenders, you will need to do more preparation before blending, such as chopping vegetables and fruits before blending and cooking vegetables such as carrots.

The only other equipment you may need are containers to store a blend. Glass canning jars or non-porous plastic such as Rubbermaid or Tupperware pitchers work well. If the blend will be frozen, you may also use freezer bags such as Ziploc bags. Often, a tube-fed child on a blended diet needs more water than he or she would need on a commercial formula diet. Water helps to prevent dehydration, which can cause constipation, headache, dry skin and tiredness.

A dietitian can calculate how much water your tube-fed child needs to take in each day. If you make tube feedings at home, it is important to prepare them safely to prevent illness. While basic sanitation rules apply, there are some additional points to consider when storing and feeding blended diets. Store unused feedings in the refrigerator. Avoid leaving homemade tube feedings out of the refrigerator for more than two hours. Do not freeze standard formula or homemade tube feeding made with standard formula.

Add the formula or milk after thawing. Some recipes do not blend well after freezing and thawing, so some experimentation may be needed. Nothing contained in this site is or should be considered, or used as a substitute for, medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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